Thursday July 9, 2015

Day 56

This is T’Ann and I’m back….as Larry said, I had to take part of our family to the airport for their flight back to Texas….and I missed my family that’s back on Seguin.

Our three children, two daughter in laws and five grandchildren

Landyn and Raychel "rolling" down the hill on Seguin

I did the regular “shore” day stuff yesterday (Wednesday): groceries, laundry and then the office where a package was waiting for me. 

I normally don’t get to visit any of the shops along the main strip of downtown Bath, so yesterday I took advantage of it and visited some of the cutest stores. 

The Book store/Tea shop, where I ordered a book and enjoyed a glass of ice tea/lemonade.  Then I visited a couple of antiques and local artist shops, finishing with the local drug store.  Off to Cyndys, she fixed dinner which was fabulous and gave me a bed for the night.

This morning (Thursday) Ethan was waiting at the dock at 6:30 to take me, the two roofers, they are going to be working on the Donkey House roof, and three of the WW. 

Oh my goodness….they have a new mower for the island!!!  It’s big, so they are having to bring it out in sections!!  We are so excited!!

Our first boat load of visitors were “repeat” visitors from a couple of weeks ago…they brought their grandson and wanted to purchase things from the gift shop!!! 

More visitors arrived by boat and then Ethan arrived with his group of visitors.  They were a wonderful group, loving the island and everything we could tell them.  Brook, who’s Ethan’s boat helper, brought his mother up, it was good to meet her.

My grandson, Landyn who just turned two, point up and says “Light House”.  He brings me postcards from here and says “Light House”.  He points to the different pictures on the wall and says “Light House”…..Hummm, maybe he likes Nani’s LIGHTHOUSE!

Landyn looking up at the Lighthouse

My son, Matthew, made Lobster Etouffee and poured it over rice…it was great!

The kids have really enjoyed the beach and it’s been wonderful to be with them.  Not sure I’m ready for them to go, we will be very sad.

No sunset to see tonight, too foggy, so we finished the sparklers.  The mosquitos have started coming around so we quickly went inside and everyone got ready for bed.

Wednesday July 8,2015

Day 55

This is Larry. The fog hung around all morning and into the early afternoon.  My son and his family and I went down to the cove and played at low tide.  The little ones got into the water but it is just too cold for me.  They found a lot of sea glass and I took the grandbabies out in the dingy.   We rowed around the cove and finally went to the buoy and got the lobster.  Yes, we are having lobster for dinner.  

 With T’Ann on shore I don’t have to cook two different meals for tonight (she can’t eat lobster.  Like I said, the fog finally burned off and it was a wonderful afternoon of sun and fun with the family.  Around 5pm a family of four arrived and wanted to see lighthouse.  I took them on a tour and they said of all the times they have been on Seguin, this is the first time they had gone out on the catwalk. 

We had lobster, mashed potatoes and corn on the cob with chocolate pudding for dessert.  We ate out on the picnic table, watched the kids have fun with sparklers and took pictures of them playing along with the sunset.  Missing T’Ann and I know she is missing them just as much.  We will meet her in the cove in the morning  to get laundry, groceries and water from the boat and get it up from the bottom of the hill to the top.

Getting the kids to bed is a chore tonight, nobody want to go to sleep.  Wish I had that much energy.

Tuesday July 7, 2015

Day 54

What a beautiful day, T’Ann went in to town with our kids and grandbabies that have to fly home tomorrow.  Tomorrow morning is not going to be a good day to get off the island due to the weather. 

We had a large host of visitors and several boats in and out of the cove.   After several trips up the lighthouse trail and multiple trips up the spiral staircase, I was able to get dinner started for the rest of us.

The fog rolled in and it got really thick with the foghorn just blasting.  So, we settled in and watched a movie and then off to bed.